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9th Annual Red Rock Invitational

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007

Click photo above for panoramic shot of the beautiful Canyons Complex. (if it does not “shrink to fit” in your browser, right mouse click, then choose “view image”. )

From

9th Annual Red Rock Invitational
May 3 and 4, 2008
St. George, Utah
Round robin pool play into single elimination bracket
(4-game guarantee)
Entry Fee: $400

Payable to:
Roy Stout
P.O. Box 812
Lake Hughes, CA 93532

Tournament Contacts:

Roy Stout – Registration and Information
umpire5@verizon.net
661-724-1551

Ken Hackmeister – Tournament Director
iscken@comcast.net
801-447-8808

Bob Henning – UIC
brotherinblue@shaw.ca
604-790-1166

Bruce Bierman – DUIC
ISC UIC
bierhawk@earthlink.net
519-632-8773

Tournament details will be posted in November along with links to photos of
the St. George Complex.

Bob Henning
mailto:brotherinblue@shaw.ca

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Monkton Moved to June 26-29, 2008

Monday, October 22nd, 2007

From

Contrary to an earlier post here on Al’s, and due to a scheduling conflict with the Tri-Nations Cup in Saskatoon, the World Fastball Invitational 2008 will be held June 26 – 29. Once again we will play host to the worlds best players and teams, and look forward to welcoming everyone to the event!

Brian Baillie

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Video Testing….

Sunday, October 21st, 2007

Just doing a little experimenting with another video site, www.revver.com. Click the first arrow, then the second. Quality of video at revver.com looking a little sharper, no?

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2008 Fastball Tournaments Calendar

Saturday, October 20th, 2007

From

Hello all tournament directors, fans, players, statisticians, and players alike. We are into the fall season and with the World Tournament a couple of months behind us many teams begin putting rough drafts of their schedules together for the 2008 season. It’s never too early to start thinking fastpitch. On the ISC page there are relatively few tournament posting for the 2008 season.

http://www.iscfastpitch.com/index.php?page=166

With the 2008 calendar a little quirky next season I urge you to take a look at it and get a good hold on where your tournaments will fall. With that said, as soon as you’ve picked your dates please forward the information to myself or to Al’s so he can get them posted as soon as possible. There are a couple of things to add this year so please look at the format and complete all information.

Thank You.

Tournament Name
Tournament Date
Location
Format
Entry Fee if applicable
Contact of the tournament
UIC’s name, phone, e-mail
If you would like to have your event be an ISC WT or ToC qualifier please sign up with your Regional Vice President(they can be found on the ISC webpage).

Thanks again for your ongoing cooperation.

Dean Kane
ISC Tournament Calendar Chairman
ct16@greenbaynet.com

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Bahamas Nationals Begin Thursday

Thursday, October 18th, 2007

From

No, the Texaco Pirates of Man-O-War Bahamas are not in this one, though we understand that one of their regular pitchers, Edney Bethel is pitching on a team that has won the tournament previously.

Speaking of the Pirates, it looks like they will be featured in the next issue of Softball Magazine, along with a story on the 2007 ISC II Tournament of Champions from Kitchener. It’s due out shortly at newstands and to subscribers. If you don’t subscribe and want to, visit their website, www.softballmag.com

Softball Nationals Begin Thursday
By Gerrino Saunders

The Bahamas Softball Federation will host its 2007 National Championship this weekend beginning on Thursday October 18th to Sunday October 21st at the Blue Hills Sporting Complex. Championship teams from Andros, Long Island, Eleuthera, Abaco, Grand Bahama, New Providence will slug it out for the national fast pitch crown. The weekend of the 2006 men’s nationals held in Eleuthera was marred by relentless rainstorms, but through it all Eleuthera defeated New Providence for the title. The federation, coaches and players are hoping for much better weather this year. Friday’s weather is predicted to be perfect with partly sunny skies and winds up to 14 km/h. On Saturday the forecast reads clouds and sun with possible thunderstorms, and on Sunday the things are expected to improve with a mixed bag of sun and clouds with winds up to 12 km/h. The defending men’s national champions are from Savannah Sound, Eleuthera.

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Wagar, Jackson Sign with Cents

Tuesday, October 16th, 2007

From

St. Thomas Centennials Roster additions

The St. Thomas Evergreen Centennials are very pleased to announce the additions of pitchers Scott Wagar and Andy Jackson.

Wags is a workhorse who relishes the oppourtunity for a fresh start. He will be counted on to be a “go to guy’ for the Cents. The team is hoping he can add something to offensive side as well with his bat.

AJ is a veteran who has proven he can beat anyone at any given time. He will give us leadership on the field and help some of the young guys adjust to the open level. Andy is a very capable hitter and can play the outfield as well as 1st base. We welcome Andy back for his third stint in the St. Thomas area. He played with some of the Fingal teams in the ’90s and helped the Union Storm win the ’04 OASA Eliminations.

For more on this story, including other player signings by the Cents, see Al’s Fastball.

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Masters News from Ontario, Canada

Tuesday, October 16th, 2007

From

[Stoney Creek, Ontario] – I’m pleased to announce a new feature on the Ontario Masters Fastball web site ! A newly designed Q & A survey now replaces the ” Masters of the Game ” segment. I’m looking for ANYONE associated with Masters fastball in Ontario & beyond. Got an interesting story to tell ? If you would like to be featured please answer the 12 questions on the Q & A survey and forward your answers to my e-mail address which is included below.

I’m very pleased to announce Rick Boyd as the first person to be featured on the Q & A survey. The survey is open to anyone with a connection to masters fastball, an umpire, player, coach, executive, sponsor etc.

Check out the Ontario Masters Fastball web site for Rick Boyd’s Q & A survey. Ontario Masters Fastball web site : http://eteamz.active.com/omf/

Other recent posts include ……………..

– OASA Masters History, past champions and individual award
winners
– Slideshow form NAFA Masters in Carson City
– Western Canadian Teams @ NAFA Masters

Yours in Sport

Dave Birnie
Web Site Administrator
Ontario Masters Fastball
Web Site : http://eteamz.active.com/omf/
E-mail : dbirnie(at)cogeco(dot)ca
E-mail : ontariomasters(at)hotmail(dot)com

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Great Britain Maccabiah Fastpitch team looking for a pitcher

Friday, October 12th, 2007

We received the following note from Hillel Horwitz in the UK, looking for a pitcher for the Maccabiah Games for the Summer of 2009:

The Great Britain Maccabiah Fastpitch softball team needs a pitcher. As you may know, GB is not a hotbed of fastpitch pitchers, let alone Jewish ones. Every Maccabiah we have the same problem of probably having enough players for a GB team, but not having a pitcher. So, we are searching…..

The Maccabiah Games is the Jewish equivalent of the Olympics, held every 4 years in Israel, with the next one in summer 2009. It is an amazing experience. Opening ceremony in a packed 40,000 seater stadium, very well organised, and great fun.

We are looking for someone:

· That can pitch half decently! We don’t require a semi pro or anything, just someone competent that can chuck the ball reasonably accurately, at reasonable speed.

· Not already recruited by the US Maccabiah team

· Jewish, or have at least one parent or grandparent that is Jewish

· They need to be able to take off around 2 weeks in the summer of 2009 to come to Israel to play

· Doesn’t mind playing with the GB team

· Intending to spend some time in the UK would be a real bonus, but if we can’t find a pitcher here (unlikely), we intend seeking dispensation for a pitcher based abroad.

Further info on the games on this link: http://www.maccabiah17.com/pages/Home_Page.aspx

Anyone interested should email me at:
hillelcharles (at) yahoo.co.uk.

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Eagles fly the coop

Wednesday, October 10th, 2007

Team ceasing operations, can’t find a major sponsor

By Darryl G. Smart
Sports Editor

INNERKIP — The glass slipper the Innerkip Eagles wore during the International Softball Congress world tournament this summer has been smashed to pieces. “It is with great disappointment that I announce that the Innerkip Eagles are ceasing operations for the upcoming 2008 fastball season,” manager Jeff Whetstone said in a press release. “Due to the inability to secure a sponsor, we will be unable to operate.” Whetstone said for the team to survive another season, it needed $20,000. Despite that, the writing was on the wall.
“We could have waited until Christmas to make a decision, but it wouldn’t be fair to the players,” Whetstone said. “But we all knew that this would happen eventually.”

This end comes on the heels of the team’s best season, which included an eighth-place finish at the ISC world tournament in Kitchener. “Finishing eighth at this year’s ISC tournament was one of our team’s highlights,” Whetstone said. The Eagles began their journey in 2000, winning the South Perth Men’s Fastball League, the Ontario Amateur Softball Association eliminations, the North American Fastball Association ‘AA’ and eastern Canadian championships.

“We won everything possible so the guys wanted to try it,” Whetstone said. So the Eagles’ next obvious step was to senior. For seven years, the Eagles gradually began to make a name for
themselves on the world stage, moving up the world ladder. In league play, the Eagles captured the 2005 title and lost to the Jarvis Merchants in the season’s final.

“The Eagles have been a mainstay in keeping the ISC Travel League alive and it is the unsung effort of the Jeff Whetstones in the game that sadly gets lost when a team can no longer operate,” ISC Hall of Famer Larry Lynch said. “Take pride in the fact that you have given
a lot of players the opportunity to play at the highest level and continue at the highest level. Teams across North America have bolstered their own by recruiting from small- town Innerkip.” And that’s exactly what is starting to happen.

While catcher Pat Humphries recently signed with the current world champion Farm Tavern, the rest of the Eagles will try to latch on with another senior team. Unfortunately, the numbers game may play a factor, thanks to a merger between the Kitchener Hallman Twins and Orillia Riversharks. As part of the merger, it was agreed the new team will consist of players from both squads, meaning a full team’s worth of players will be looking for a place to play.
Despite the Eagles folding, Whetstone said there were no regrets. “If you see where we started, not many people heard of Innerkip,” Whetstone said. “Now they know most of our guys.”

Darryl Smart
519-537-2341 ext. 258
dsmart@bowesnet.com
www.woodstocksentinelreview.com

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So Cal Bombers Win Copa Dum at Mexicali

Monday, October 8th, 2007

Updated Report

This is an update of an earlier report, with more details on the Bomber’s win in Mexicali.

As promised, we are providing all of the information provided to us from the Mexicali tournament.

“The So Cal Bombers won the Copa Dum tournament in Mexicali last weekend, September 29-30, 2007.”

The Bombers knocked off the Tijuana team that had a pitching staff of Jeremy Manley and Sebastian Gervasutti, then beat the hometown team from Mexicali, Fruteria Santa Cecilia, 6-4, coming from behind to do so, on Charlie Pena’s two run single in the fifth.

Update, October 8, 2007:

The So Cal Bombers beat Mexicali in the final 6-4. Mexicali scored 4 runs in the first inning off of Rob Schweyer including back to back HR’s to start the game. Schweyer went one more inning after the 1st and then Whitten threw the last 5 striking out 14 of the 15 outs. Raymundo Parra hit a solo HR in the 3rd to get the scoring started. The Bombers scratched one across in the 4th and then got 4 in the 6th to take the lead. Charlie Pena had a 2 out 2 rbi single to give the Bombers the lead. That was all Whitten needed. Panfilo Valdez started for them and pitched into the sixth when the Bombers scoring outburst occurred. There was a very good crowd in attendance — one that left no doubt as to who they were rooting for — hometown Mexicali. The Bombers finished the tournament with a 4-0-1 record. The tie was with Raymar, 11-11 on Sunday morning, in a game played after the Bombers captured the # 1 seed and that did not have playoff implications.
Game 1: Bomber 9, Ensendada 1;
Game 2: Bombers 8, Tijuana 2;
Game 3: Raymar 11, Bombers 11, tie;
Game 4 (semi-final): Bombers 9, Mexico City 0.

Roman Foore (Minnesota) played for the Bombers and led the team with 4 home runs.

Most Valuable Player was Sean Whitten;
Most Valuable pitcher was Panfilo Valdez
Batting Champion was Jason Porto

Whitten threw 18 innings struck out 44 and only gave up 4 hits. Schweyer threw a no hitter against Ensenada on Saturday.

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